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To: DoughtyOne
If you’re addressing police corruption, I believe there has always been a problem with that, to a lesser/greater extent. Are there bad police officers out there? Yes. There are bad humans in just about any organization. It’s where folks try to make the case that the vast majority if officers are bad, that I roll my eyes and leave the room.

It's said that "power corrupts," but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.

David Brin, The Postman (1997)

36 posted on 06/24/2011 12:58:37 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Look, please don’t quote some Leftist’s idea of sentient thought from a movie spewing a Liberal’s point of view about a post apocalyptic world to me.

We’re talking about a civilized society that must have some ground-rules.

If you want to talk about some hypothetical post apocalyptic world, I’m not your guy.


40 posted on 06/24/2011 1:19:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Muslim Brotherhood (renames itself) the Liberty and Justice Party. NOT A JOKE.)
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